"Basic Elements" Exhibition
Blank Space
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BLANK SPACE presents Basic Elements , a duo exhibition featuring the art works of Anne Russinof and Sand T. Russinof's layering and minimalistic appreciation of structure, combined with Sand T's interplay of line, dot and light both represent the basic elements of shape, color and medium.
Sand T's non-objectional reductive art deals with repetition, geometric abstraction, and minimalism. Her time-consuming and labor-intensive process combines UV resistant epoxy resin, graphite, and paint on archival tempered clayboard, or acrylic glass panels. Resin droplets are improvisationally released on to the surface one at a time in a humidity- and temperature-controlled and dust-free environment. The result is the “frozen”, clear, and organic characteristics of the epoxy resin.
In Tuncer’s History/Fiction series, the artist has been working with a single sixteenth-century Iznik tile pattern. By repeating the design, allowing it to echo itself and mutate, and by superimposing various geometric systems on it, he creates a complex visual equivalent of the dynamics of cultural disjuncture. Just as memory alters the perception of time, by overlaying these patterns Tuncer
subverts their repetitive rigidity. In painterly language, using tactile qualities and color, he suggests that order, like authority, is vital only when it evolves, and that it evolves only when challenged and made to diverge from its historical context.
Depending on the colors used, light available, along with the quantity and spread of resin, there are different combinations of “wetness”. For example, “Delta Gray X-7” might appear to have the viewer looking out a window on a grey, rainy day. And yet there is nothing so defined except what is represented in the viewer's mind.
Anne Russinof's repeating circles and grids come about through a wet-on-wet painting technique that builds up an abstract imagery. Her deftly gestured brush strokes invite the viewer to peer closer, to look within and below the layers of paint ? through the latticework, through the order and disorder ? such as with “Vertigo Orange.”
Always interested in combining an expressionist tendency with a relatively minimalist appreciation of structure, the artist re-interprets nature by creating an order of her own. As in “Picot” or “All the Way,” the viewer's eye is drawn closer and through the repeated shapes and then pulls back, as the elements settle into a whole.
Born in Malaysia and currently working in Massachusetts, Sand T received her MFA and an Honorary BFA degrees from Tufts University and the Museum School in Boston. Her most recent solo and group exhibitions have been predominantly throughout Massachusetts with some international group exhibitions. She has been featured in a great number of publications plus private and public collections worldwide.
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Schedule
from May 03, 2011 to May 28, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-05 from 18:00 to 20:00